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...hilt, or tsuba, lending many works which are inaccessible even to the Japanese: these registered National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties have never left Japan before. They include such extraordinary objects as the sliding doors that Kanō Eitoku, aged 23, decorated with a design of a crane and a tree for the Jukō-in temple in Kyoto, circa 1566, a youthful achievement that invites comparison to the 25-year-old Masaccio's frescoes in Florence; one of the grandest specimens of calligraphic painting in Japanese history, Konoe Nobutada's Six Principles for the Composition of Poems...
...daylight came, the charred head of one of the guerrillas could be seen in the wreckage of what had been the hotel's third floor. Blood ran down the broken concrete foundation, and bloodstained bedding billowed in the morning breeze. A three-man team, assisted by a cherrypicker crane, began searching the debris for bodies...
...Councilwoman Cornelia Wheeler, who claims that she received all her political knowledge from Crane, mayor and consistent vote-getter Walter J. Sullivan is an old-style politician: "It is discouraging to walk in a parade with Walter. Everyone who sees him says 'Hi, Walter.' I thought I should have hired a claque to yell 'Hi Connie,' just to march with him because he is so popular." But does she believe he could lead the city coalition needed to make things move? "No," says Wheeler. "I don't think the businessmen would rally around...
...since Crane departed from the scene no one person has been able to pull either neighborhood or business groups together. Moot notes that the CCA, once broad, powerful and shrewd, today is composed of inexperienced politicians, many incapable at the moment of mounting a coalition. And the community groups for the most part have yet to exercise the coherence or the political acumen to throw their weight behind a certain issue and get it done...
...unite the fragmented groups and "get Cambridge back on the tracks," as Jones says. However, Sullivan and Jones are optimistic. Sullivan speaks enthusiastically of the future because, although the city has no community power structure, Cambridge is getting out of the cut-rate service low-tax mire that Eddie Crane dredged it through. But Jones pins his hopes a different plane--he claims he is looking ahead to the future. He's waiting for the emergence of another power broker like Eddie Crane...